Bulbostylis barbata
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Description
Leaves much shorter than the stems, capillary, glabrous (except for the long white hairs at the orifice of the sheaths), smooth or slightly scaberulous at the top, ¼-⅓ mm wide.
Inflorescence capitate, hemispherical, with (1-)3-20 spikelets, 5-15 mm across.
Stamen 1;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Southern U.S.A present, warm parts of the Old World present
Widely distributed over the warm parts of the Old World, also in the southern U.S.A. (see ), throughout Malesia, but nowhere common.
Notes
A variable species. A form known from Ceylon and India, with larger glumes, 3 stamens with larger anthers, and slightly larger nuts is sometimes treated as a separate species.
Citation
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 311
Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. p 77
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 98
DECNE 1835: Herb. Tim. Descr. p 32
KURZ 1864 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I. p 223
KERN 1968 – In: Back.& Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3. p 468
KUNTH 1837 – In: En. p 208
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn. p 101
ROTTB. 1773: Descr. & Ic: 52. t. 17 f. 4
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.). fam. 246, p. 27
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip. p 127
BOECK. 1870 – In: Linnaea. p 751
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 157. t. 161
ROTTB. 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. p 284
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen. p 160
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 310
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 310
F.-VILL. 1882: NOV. App. p 308
PRESL 1828 – In: Rel. Haenk. p 187
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén, I.-C. p 126
KÜK. 1940 – In: Bot. Jahrb. p 463
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philip. p 156
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila. p 116